Do you agree that martin Luther king was the most important factor in helping black people gaining civil rights in 1960s?

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Do you agree that martin Luther king was the most important factor in helping black people gaining civil rights in 1960s?

For hundreds of years black people in America had been discriminated against. It was only in the 1960s that people started to take action this was the start of the civil rights movement. One person who helped black people gain civil rights was martin Luther king but he was not the most important factor because there where many factors that did more work than martin l k, he was just the most famous.

The NAACP founded in 1909    was a group of civil right activists who wanted black people to have the same rights as all white people. In  1944 they had got the Supreme Court to outlaw segregated schools although it did not work because people still segregated the black children in school it was one step closer to the civil rights.  Though the 1950s and 60sThey also set up boycotts, mass meetings, marches, rallies, sit-ins, the bus boycotts helped win equal rights to use any public property. Martin l k was invited to speak in one of the NAACP rally’s, which got him noticed so some historians say that if it had not been for the NACCP martin l k would not have been able to speak out and no one would of herd of him, which proves that he was not the most important factor.

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Rosa parks was part of the NAACP and in December 1955 broke the law by sitting at the front of the bus and not getting up when a white man wanted to sit down. Rosa Park was taken to prison and NAACP started a campaign to stop segregation on buses.  The bus boycott was organised, the idea was that no black would go on the bus

Martin l k did a lot of great things to try and win civil rights such as the 1963 I have a dream speech in Washington that got the worlds ...

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